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Internals of the set.

My experience with this unit was a bit of a disappointment. When I would watch a HD broadcast there would be a thin white, green, multi-colored strip at the bottom of the screen. Also, the picture would curl in towards the center of the screen at the bottom of the screen in HD mode. The last thing that happened was that I had a problem with the speakers cutting in and out. Audio seemed to shift between the front/rear speakers giving a really odd sound effect. Good guys sent out a technician to do some repairs. Actually they sent out three techs. The first two tried to fix it. The third rattled off all of the things that he could see wrong with my TV just by looking at the picture. About six weeks later I got a phone call from good guys saying that the TV would be under warrantee. I ended up upgrading to the Sony XBR 30" Widescreen HDTV. Much happier with the picture now and I thoroughly enjoy the widescreen format. All said... Philips did stand behind their product for me so I can't say anything bad.

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Sony Trinitron XBR 30" HDTV

Picture quality , built quality , HDTV RDY.

None so far, acctually i find it weird that a blue line goes on when i play dvd 16:9 ratio on the upper edge of the screen...(it´s acctually mentioned in the manual..)

I must say this tv has one of the best image qualities i´ve ever seen.It was about half the price of a Sony XBR or a Plasma monitor and very well woth it!I set up with a progressive scan DVD , so it´s amazing!! I watch it from about 2 meters away from the screen and the image and resolution is still great!!!(a have little space in my room!) after when i move to a larger apartment probably my HT will than be really great!!! i should at least be watching it from 3-4 meters away. My HT: Philips PT8419 Denon 3803 Pioneer DV656 H.Kardon CD 8400 B&W 603 S3 (front main) B&W 600 S3 (center) B&W 302 (surround) Infinity Alpha 1400s (subwoofer)

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Sony 27´.All wegas... XBR...

Image quality. HDTV ready.

None so far.

Outstanding picture quality. See review at: http://www.graskinhometheatre.bigstep.com/generic.html?pid=31

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Looked at various models from Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic.

Audio quality is good except for forementioned surround problem.

The picture Quality Control Pricey

I just took delivery of a 32PT8419. Either my set is defective or Philips has a serious problem with this product line. On the video side, there is extremely poor detail resolution and color definition which produce an unatural and very muddy image. Colors bleed together and the final effect is a picture that looks like a copy of a copy of a VHS recording. There are also exetremely annoying motion artifacts that occur in the picture. (If Timothy Leary were still a live he might enjoy the effect these motion artifacts provide.) The bottom line is that my 10 year Toshiba has a better picture than this set. On the audio side, sound quality is very respectable however, in my case, the surround mode ocasionally drops which causes a disturbing "location change" in the sound. My set also arrived with a defective navigation button - volume, channel and menu control. This is a significant problem because the navigation button is currently my only method set operation. (The accessory package -remote, owners manual and warranty info- was missing when the TV was delivered.) Philips did send a regional tech out promptly ( 1 day!!!) to check out the problems. He did agree that the navigation button was faulty but claimed that the picture was normal. He went on to say that a progresive scan picture coming from a sat dish source (Direct TV) will not look as good as one sent to an "ordinary" set because of the way progressive scan deals with compression/decompression of satelite broadcast. (I've been checking myself in the mirror a lot lately to see if I really look that stupid.) I am currently in contact with Philips but I do not want nor do I recommend the 32PT8419.